Here the Frenchman, Spaniar... by Hervey Allen, an American Author

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“Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.”

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Name: Hervey Allen

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Dec 8, 1889

Date of Death: Dec 28, 1949

Profession: Author

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Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.

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Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.

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Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void.

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Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.

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In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first to be colonized.

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